Is Hillary Clinton Right About Trump Supporters? This Is What The Polling Data Says (“A survey taken this May found that about two-thirds of Trump supporters believe Obama is a Muslim…The same poll found 59 percent of Trump supporters believe Obama was not born in the United States…These views are incorrect but are also racist and xenophobic….A poll of 16,000 Americans conducted by Reuters in June found that 40% of Trump supporters believed that blacks were more ‘lazy’ than whites and nearly 50% believed blacks were more ‘violent’ than whites.”)

Why Clinton isn’t sweating ‘deplorables’ (“A public debate about the true size of Donald Trump’s ‘alt-right’ base doesn’t bother Team Hillary one bit.” Nor should it, as Hillary Clinton is right, although her “half” figure may be too low…)

Clinton leads Trump in new poll, but warning signs emerge (“Clinton holds a 46 percent to 41 percent edge over Trump among likely voters, followed by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at 2 percent. Clinton’s lead swells to 10 percentage points among the wider swath of registered voters, 45 percent to 35 percent, similar to her 45 percent to 37 percent edge last month.”)

Did They Forget to Mention Something? (“As far as I can tell, none of the Trump campaign pushback to Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comments have said anything about the people Clinton was talking about not being racist, not being misogynist or by whatever definition not being ‘haters.’ It’s not referenced once.”)

Republicans rave about Tim Kaine (“‘I think he could be very effective with working with people here,’ says one of the potential VP’s many GOP fans in the Senate.”)

Belleville: Virginia’s energy future (“The CPP sets an eminently achievable goal for Virginia to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of whether the CPP is the final regulatory word on the matter, Virginia would benefit greatly if its policymakers took steps to bring the Commonwealth into the 21st century clean energy economy.”)

Election Day Twitter Feed

"Today, Congresswoman-Elect Abigail Spanberger announced Roscoe Jones, Jr. as her incoming Chief of Staff, her first official hire as the newly-elected representative from Virginia's 7th Congressional District." https://t.co/G050eeaH4S